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SUMMARY:REGARD ONLINE Workshop: Academic mobility and dual career planning
DTSTART:20201008T093000
DTEND:20201008T143000
DTSTAMP:20260510T064829Z
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CATEGORIES:Internal trainings
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Blackford\, academic careers specialist\nThis workshop i
 s opened to both women and men\n\nDescription\nAcademic mobility comes in 
 two main flavours: accepting a research position abroad\, and short-term t
 ravelling for collaborations\, meetings or fieldwork. Both can provide gre
 at opportunities as well as challenges\, especially with children involved
 . Mobility can be an important factor for success in an academic career\, 
 and is nowadays even seen as an essential requirement in many cases. We wi
 ll discuss opportunities\, challenges and impact of academic mobility. Par
 ticipants will receive information and feedback on how to organize a move 
 abroad and short-term travelling. They will be encouraged to selfreflect i
 n order to make a grounded decision regarding mobility in their own lives.
 \n \nObjectives\n\n	Find creative solutions to balance private goals and 
 your family situation with travel requirements\n	Understand opportunities\
 , challenges and impact of academic mobility\n	Have practical information 
 on how to find a position abroad and how to prepare for an international m
 ove\n	Have stronger basis to decide on how mobile you want to be as scient
 ists\n\n \nApproach\nTheoretical input will alternate with individual\, p
 air and group work.\n \n \nTarget audience \nPhd Students & Postdocs ___
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 _________________________________________________\nRegistration & Particip
 ation fee \nParticipation is free for members of partner institutions. Reg
 istration is done online and opens 6 weeks before the course begins:  htt
 p://www.unifr.ch/regard  \nThe REGARD programme is addressed to young fem
 ale academics of the next generation and for women professors of the unive
 rsities of French-speaking Switzerland\, HES-SO and EPFL. The REGARD progr
 amme is organized by the gender equality offices those institutions.  \nT
 he objective of the REGARD program is to develop skills and offer concrete
  tools for career management and supervision. These workshops also create 
 spaces for discussion and exchange of experiences among researchers. They 
 also aim to increase awareness of gender equality issues in academic caree
 rs. 
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